[26]. Rabbi Solomon on Num. xxix, in Lightfoot on this feast.
[27]. Pool’s Synopsis, on John vii, 37. He refers to Grotius.
[28]. Lewis’s Origines Hebraeæ, p. 606.
[29]. “The Meaning and Use of Baptizein, Philologically and Historically investigated for the American Bible Union. By T. J. Conant, D. D.,” p. 158. The italics are by Dr. C.
[30]. “Antiquities of the Jews,” XVIII, vi, 2.
[31]. J. W. Etheridge, in “Jerusalem and Tiberias.” P. 105.
[32]. Sale’s “Koran,” chapter v.
[33]. ἀφ’ ὡν ἔθος αὐτο μιανεσθαι.—“From those things which custom causes to defile it.” Ἔθος, commonly means a custom grounded in law. (Compare Acts vi, 14; xv, 1; xvi, 21; xxi, 21; xxv, 16; xxvi, 3; xxviii, 17; etc.)
[34]. Philonis Judæi Opera omnia, Frankofurti, 1691, De Victimas Offerentibus.
[35]. Josephus, Antiquities, IV, iv, 6.